If you’re going to cite the science deniers, at least keep up to date. The latest so-called “Crisis in Cosmology Conference” was in 2008 in Washington State. Even so, we’ve learned a thing or two in the last 14 years. There aren’t any (reputable) dissenters today.

Science is neither democratic nor political.

It’s a dictatorship, and the dictators are facts and evidence. These things are not a matter of opinion.

Let me quote Bertrand Russell about scepticism. “The scepticism that I advocate amounts only to this: (1) that when the experts are agreed, the opposite opinion cannot be held to be certain; (2) that when they are not agreed, no opinion can be regarded as certain by a non-expert; and (3) that when they all hold that no sufficient grounds for a positive opinion exist, the ordinary man would do well to suspend his judgment.”

The best thing for a layperson like yourself to do is to learn and apply the expert consensus, even if it feels icky.